Team Foundation Server (TFS) Consulting Services

Overview

Canarys is a Gold Certified solution partner for Microsoft for Visual Studio. Canarys delivers a suite of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) related services for Team Foundation Server. These services enhance team productivity, reduce defects, and improve satisfaction—for your software development team and your end customer. We have strong expertise on the Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server tools with more than 5 years of experience as consultants. Our field-tested services and world-class certified consultants have improved software development effectiveness in both .NET and Java-based organizations.

We deliver services in three primary steps:
    • Step 1: ALM Assessment
    • Step 2: TFS Installation & Integration
    • Step 3: TFS Automated Build & Deploy

ALM Assessment

With the Complete ALM Assessment, our experts deliver a thorough analysis through unbiased insights into your process. The recommendations are practical and measurable. To start the analysis, your team takes an online assessment. Canarys follows the assessment with onsite interviews and analysis. Our team completes the process with an important assessment of how your organization compares to mature software organizations. The assessment will include analysis, recommendations, next steps and the roadmap. These are recommendations are meant to give you the best return on your investments without hindering the current development process.

TFS Deployment & Integration

In the TFS deployment and integration offering, the TFS is configured in your environment based on the best practices. Trainings on configuration and usage to your team will bring them up to speed thereby reducing the go-live duration significantly. Every activity is documented and shared with your team for future maintenance. Suggestions regarding external components, tools and extensions that integrate into the TFS are also provided to ease up areas where the out-of-the-box features may not be adequate. Once the activity is completed, your team will be able to seamlessly continue using the capabilities to its fullest capacity.

TFS Automated Build & Deploy

This activity involves automating your current application public build using the TFS Build feature. Additional customizations required during the configuration is completed and documented. Training is provided to your team to seamlessly continue the already configured build process and also build additional build processes on need basis. Once the activity is completed, your release management process would be streamlined bring savings in terms of effort, time and quality.

Our Services

Our mission is to help reduce the complexity of software development and bring about enhanced team productivity. The goal of these services is to prepare development teams and other project stakeholders to better design, develop, build and release applications and to get real-time insight into their projects.

The following services are offered by us:
    • Entry-level Workshops - Visual Studio Boot camp to give your team and overview of Visual Studio and the Application Lifecycle Management
    • ALM Assessments – evaluates your current software development process with concrete recommendations on how to improve it.
    • Proof of Concepts – helps you team evaluate the suitability of Visual Studio by creating a Proof-of-concept for a real business scenario
    • Acceleration - TFS installation and customization
    • Walkthroughs – deep-dive trainings and hand-holding on a real project
    • Support – get support for Visual Studio related technical roadblocks
    • Migration of data from old version control tools to TFS
    • Migration of older versions of TFS to latest versions